"It’s unfortunate that Steam has removed Crysis 2 from their service. This was not an EA decision or the result of any action by EA.

Steam has imposed a set of business terms for developers hoping to sell content on that service – many of which are not imposed by other online game services. Unfortunately, Crytek has an agreement with another download service which violates the new rules from Steam and resulted in its expulsion of Crysis 2 from Steam.

Crysis 2 continues to be available on several other download services including GameStop, Amazon, Origin.com and more."

UPDATE: Electronic Arts has responded to my questions regarding its current relationship with Steam, claiming Crysis 2 was not removed from Steam because EA asked. Instead, EA claims Steam "imposed a set of business terms" that resulted in an existing agreement Crytek had regarding Crysis 2 that "violates the new rules," resulting in the "expulsion" of Crysis 2.

I've asked EA for better clarification on what "business terms" have changed and why games like Alice: Madness Returns are no longer on Steam. I've also requested comment from Valve.

The full statement is below:

"It’s unfortunate that Steam has removed Crysis 2 from their service. This was not an EA decision or the result of any action by EA.

Steam has imposed a set of business terms for developers hoping to sell content on that service – many of which are not imposed by other online game services. Unfortunately, Crytek has an agreement with another download service which violates the new rules from Steam and resulted in its expulsion of Crysis 2 from Steam.

Crysis 2 continues to be available on several other download services including GameStop, Amazon, Origin.com and more."

ORIGINAL STORY: When Electronic Arts decided to heavily push its Origin web portal and distribution service at E3, alongside word it would be the exclusive home to Star Wars: The Old Republic, it became an open question whether EA would continue to play ball with Steam. We appear to have an answer to that question, with Crysis 2, Alice: Madness Returns and Battlefield 3 all disappearing.

So far, I've been unable to get an answer from any party involved. Valve, EA and Crytek have all, to date, remained unresponsive. Other outlets are reporting a statement's coming later today.

You can still, however, purchase other EA games on Steam. Crysis and Need for Speed are still there, as is the Need for Speed series. It mostly seems that EA's chosen to start holding back its most recent and upcoming releases, in hopes of driving consumer traffic to its own service.

From what I have read so far, you should still be able to play it through STEAM, you cannot purchase it now through STEAM.
I hope that is the case as I am one of those that do enjoy playing Crysis 2 And no I am not some 12 year old kid (actually 41) - as this has been implied of those who do like this game in other threads

It seems like Steam doesn't like this other portal service, does it? I also wonder if the activation limit DRM in the game had anything to do with it? Yeah, they really shouldn't dance around it without telling us what the specifics were.

If people remember, I pre-purchased the game from Steam, because third party DRM wasn't included - at least according to the Steam store.

When I ran it, I discovered that it had solid shield DRM and forced Steam to give me a refund on it. I liked the game too, so everyone lost here.

I hope they don't mess around with people that have already bought it by pulling it off them or doing weird stuff with it. If they start doing so, then this will be the last that I buy on Steam - and I've spent hundreds on their platform.

Yeah, from what I understand, if th game is available on any other download server then Valve will not allow the game to be available on Steam.

Seems like a shitty way to handle things.

It seems to me it is a Steam issue, and has damn sure made sure that I'm not buying anything through Steam again.

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I appreciate the point you made

but i dont use Direct 2 drive
i dont use Impulse
i dont use anything other then steam

its simple its easy has good deals, community features allows game mods, hosts screenshots, etc, i wont go anywhere else for games so if its not on steam i wont buy it. Ill just resort to other means to play those games.

Meh i will buy a hard copy of bf3 as far as crysis 2 go's its for the better anyway no one should pay $60 for a broken game full of cheaters and bugs.
I wish steam would impose a policy against bullshit games, along the lines of " we tested the game and it was not up to Steam's quality control standards for _______________ reasons.

whats gone wrong with pc software, im amazed they have the cheek to make us jump thru such hoops to buy so few games each year, its not like their churning out games these days it il take ea ten years to get 10 pages of games it only sells the dicks, i will say in their favour, their online instant assist service absolutely pissses on steams ignore you for a week customer service , ive 12 games on steam and 2 through ea.

and as for a previouse post ea wont let me tie crysis 1 to my account or a gr8 many other ea games,why not i do not know, again what does it matter ive a legit copy let me dl it into said ea games list - bit shit but then so is steamid go box copy only but no one sells em and id have tto dl half the game thru steam or origay anyway.

Also another reason not to use EA downloader stuff,
I remember when 2142 was on there dl service EA imposed a time limit on how long you would be able to re download and install the game,
something like 2 yr's or something then you would have to buy it again if you needed to reinstall.
It was hidden in the License agreement.

and as for a previouse post ea wont let me tie crysis 1 to my account or a gr8 many other ea games,why not i do not know, again what does it matter ive a legit copy let me dl it into said ea games list - bit shit but then so is steamid go box copy only but no one sells em and id have tto dl half the game thru steam or origay anyway.

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Well, unfortunately this isn't totally unreasonable. When you buy a game off Steam, you pay them for their infrastructure/overheads, bandwidth and profits. By buying it on a different platform, you've given them nothing, so they don't owe you anything.

In some cases you can tie the game to Steam. This likely because they've done a deal with the software house, where they got paid a fee for this.

Also another reason not to use EA downloader stuff,
I remember when 2142 was on there dl service EA imposed a time limit on how long you would be able to re download and install the game,
something like 2 yr's or something then you would have to buy it again if you needed to reinstall.
It was hidden in the License agreement.

its simple its easy has good deals, community features allows game mods, hosts screenshots, etc, i wont go anywhere else for games so if its not on steam i wont buy it. Ill just resort to other means to play those games.

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That's crazy talk. Amazon has a damn near perfect system for selling games, unlike their books. Once you buy it, you wouldn't even know it came from there. No interface, period. Just like installing from a disk.